‘Form panel to ensure dignified disposal of bodies’

A petition has been filed within the Supreme Court looking for instructions to the Centre and different authorities to kind a committee to ensure the dignified disposal of our bodies of COVID-19 victims. It referred to the current reviews of floating corpses discovered within the Ganga in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

The petition has sought instructions for constituting a three-tier committee on the Centre, State, panchayat, the agricultural and municipality ranges to look into the disposal of our bodies.

Vineet Jindal, in his petition, stated the disposal of our bodies of COVID-19 victims in rivers might have a devastating impact on the ingesting water provide of cities and villages located on the banks. There was a terror of the transmission of ailments as nicely, he added.

“It is respectfully submitted that the dead bodies of COVID-19 affected persons are being buried on the banks of rivers. Sand covering the bodies is blown away by strong winds, exposing the decomposing bodies,” the petition, filed by means of advocate Raj Kishor Choudhary, stated.

The petition arrayed the Centre, the National Mission for Clean Ganga, the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments, and the air pollution management boards of the 2 States, as respondents.

It sought a course to the authorities to take away all such our bodies and restore the ecology of the riverbeds.

The petition additionally sought to declare the riverbed of the Ganga an ecologically delicate space and, therefore, be protected and preserved.

It stated instructions must be given to the authorities involved to present protected ingesting water to these residing close to the river banks.

The petition sought instructions to the authorities to instantly take acceptable steps to both conduct door-to-door COVID-19 checks or organise medical camps in areas the place our bodies had been discovered alongside the banks to forestall the an infection from spreading.

It additionally sought instructions to take acceptable measures to vaccinate these residing adjoining to the banks of the Ganga.

The petition stated the poor didn’t have the sources for a correct burial and the authorities must be directed to take strict motion towards those that cost cash within the title of performing final rites at crematoriums and graveyards.

“In order to ensure that dignity is upheld during handling of bodies, the cremation/burial ground staff must be sensitised about proper handling of the body,” it stated.

Necessary security gear and services must be offered to the employees at cremation and burial grounds in order that they may carry out their duties effectively and with none concern or danger, it added.